1-1, the World Preliminary Tournament is in chaos! South Korea's upset pit miserable national football team: Qualified without a draw, 8 points = out
The 2026 World Preliminary Tournament has come to an end temporarily, and on June 6, the venue for the national football team's home match against Thailand in the fifth round of the World Preliminary Tournament has been determined, and the Football Association will arrange the home stadium of the national football team at the Shenyang Olympic Sports Center. The predecessor of the Shenyang Olympic Sports Center is Wulihe Stadium, which is the blessed land of Chinese football, and now it has returned to the blessed land after 8 years, and the goal of the national football team is to defeat Thailand at home, so as to advance to the round of 18 in advance, if it does not win, then the national football team will bid farewell to the 2026 World Cup in advance.
In the 3rd and 4th rounds of the World Preliminary Tournament in March, the national football team played against Singapore back-to-back home and away, and the national football team was forced to draw 2-2 by Singapore in the away game, although it returned to the home stadium Tianjin Water Drop Stadium to defeat the opponent 4-1, but the national football team's qualifying situation changed abruptly, and did not get full 6 points, which laid a huge hidden danger for the national football team to qualify, because the Thai team in the same group snatched 1 point from the South Korean team, so that the Thai team saw the hope of qualifying.
Thailand home and away against South Korea, originally did not expect to be able to get points, but the South Korean team is in the midst of a change of coach, Klinsmann is out of class, the team is in a period of chaos without a leader, the Thai team in the away 1 goal behind the score actually equalized, and finally won a 1-1 draw, grabbed the life-saving three points, back at home, Thailand team lost 0-3. In this way, after 4 rounds, the national football team overtook Thailand with 7 points and ranked 2nd, and the Thai team ranked 3rd in the group with 4 points.
The points difference between China and Thailand is only 3 points, and the qualifying situation has become delicate, and in the next round of the group stage, the Chinese national team will sit at home to face the Thai team. In fact, the national football team originally only needed to draw Thailand to advance, but due to South Korea's upset at home, Thailand snatched a point from the away side, which made the national football team miserable, forcing the national football team to the edge of the cliff, and only by defeating Thailand could it be promoted.
South Korea is a super strong team in Asia, the strength in Group C is the only existence, from the point of view of strength, two legs in the face of Thailand easy to win, away 3-0 victory over Thailand, is the real performance of the South Korean team, but at home was forced to draw 1-1, but directly pit the national football team, if the Thai team only 3 points in 4 rounds, then the lead of the national football team will reach 4 points, the next round only draw Thailand will be able to advance to advance.
But now the promotion situation has abruptly changed, the national football team is only 3 points ahead of Thailand, if the national football team does not win Thailand at home, the difference between the two teams is still 3 points, the last round of the national football team to challenge the strong South Korean team away, it is difficult to grab points, and there is a high probability of losing, and Thailand is back at home against the weakest group of Singapore, the possibility of winning and winning by a large score is very high, then the points of the national football team will be tied by Thailand, when the two teams compare goal difference, the Thai team will have the advantage, so as to beat the national football team to advance, and the national football team will be humiliatingly missed the round of 18。
In order to ensure that the national football team can successfully advance to the top 18, the national football team will set its home stadium in Shenyang, because Shenyang is very close to South Korea, so it is convenient to go directly to South Korea after playing the home game to avoid fatigue. According to statistics, the national football team has an unbeaten record of 9 wins and 1 draw in official matches held in Shenyang, including the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan after defeating Oman here in 2001.
Now the most unfavorable point for the national football team is that the team's top scorer Wu Lei is suspended because of the accumulation of yellow cards, and the head coach Ivankovic urgently needs to use these two months to find Wu Lei's stand-in.